Need It/Don’t Need It: The Cheap Mum’s Guide to Back to School Gear

January 27, 2015

What’s that? You missed the screaming flyers, garish banners, and bellowing TV commercials? Well, we can officially confirm: it’s BACK TO SCHOOL TIME! Yep, and that means stocking up on a lifetime’s worth of bags, bottles, and containers guaranteed to disappear before the first week is out. Prefer to keep your hard earned cash in your pocket if possible? Let us break down what back to…

Jade Warne is the Hipster Mum, the eldest daughter in a family of 14 children raised by nuns on the beaches of Sydney, Australia. Just kidding! There were actually only seven of them, all raised by the kind of super-mum who makes nuns look like slackers: entrepreneurial, talented, kind, beautiful, and scandalously stylish. As the high-powered (read: high-strung) kid of the bunch, she studied finance and pitched stories to magazines on the side, eventually winding up at Marie Claire and Women's Health. These days, she offers a creative guide to parenting at Hipster Mum. Check out Hipster Mum on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and get liking already!